Here’s how Mizzou will allocate football tickets for games on Faurot Field this fall
Fans hoping to watch the Missouri Tigers play football on Faurot Field this fall will be able to get tickets — though it’ll depend on donor rank, according to an email sent out to season-ticket holders.
Mizzou announced last week it was allowing up to 25% fan capacity inside Memorial Stadium this fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tigers will play a modified 10-game, SEC-only schedule in MU coach Eliah Drinkwitz’s first year. They kick off against the Alabama Crimson Tide on Sept. 26, the first of five Mizzou home games.
The four highest donor ranks will have the chance to select their seats this week. That process will then work through the lower level donors throughout the next few weeks.
Donors ranked in the highest levels of classification, AD Cabinet and Hall of Fame, are allocated up to eight season tickets. The next levels, All-American and Excellence, will be allocated up to four season tickets and can claim them by Friday. Director, True Tiger and Gold level members can get four tickets apiece. Columns and Champions donors will be allocated two tickets each.
The final five levels — Varsity, Black & Gold, Rock M, Booster and season-ticket holders who have not donated to the Tiger Scholarship Fund — can claim two tickets each. But the email notes that for those levels, MU will monitor the inventory and demand, and based on that, there could be a separate “mini-plan model” where they can attend multiple 2020 home games.
The email said the reseating plan is only active for the 2020 season, and season-ticket holders will be back in their seats in 2021. How MU plans to allocate student tickets was not included in the email.
If season-ticket holders opt out, they can contribute all or a portion of their refund to the Tiger Scholarship Fund, apply the refund as a credit toward 2021 season tickets, or request a full refund.
MU athletic director Jim Sterk said Monday there will also be in-house policies to further protect fans. One example associate athletic director Nick Joos said was to have fans circulate within specific zones on game days, limiting them to certain gates, restrooms or concessions.
The SEC announced a list of guidelines for schools who plan to have fans this fall. That includes having fans wear masks when not seated or unable to socially distance from another group.
“We’re going to need cooperation from people to be able to do it,” Sterk said. “If you can’t social distance, you need to wear that mask. We’ll have groups of social groupings, if you will. But we’ll also ... outline, ‘Here’s how we would like you to handle yourself while you’re here.’ We need cooperation.”